What Jesse Jackson REALLY Meant

[Don Davis]

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1994

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. He's impossible to satirize

It's like when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Tom Lehrer quit performing, announcing "Satire is dead."

Jesse Jackson is as forgettable as Ralph Nader. At least Nader actually accomplished things, unlike Jackson, who just liked to swoop in and make noise when things went wrong. Now, they're both superfluous, and neither is willing to give up what they think of as their places in the sun.

Move over and be graceful about it, fellas. The new kids are here, and they're taking over from us, bless their hearts. It's their time now, so shut the fuck up.

[spag68]

3. screw Nader

I would buy a Corvair today if they still made them. Mine<1963> went everywhere in the snow that I wanted to go, and got 28 MPG. With todays technology it could easily get 35. The motor was similar to the Subaru, except air cooled.

[2Design]

2. if you are on Fox news -- you don't trust n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. I'm taking a moment to remind people of some very worthwhile endeavors undertaken by Jesse Jackson:

~snip~
Throughout his career as a political and social activist, Jackson has also been a prominent figure in international diplomacy. In 1979 he traveled to South Africa to speak out against apartheid and to the Middle East to try to establish relations between Israel and the Palestinians. In January of 1984 he returned to the Middle East to negotiate the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman, a black Navy pilot who had been shot down and taken hostage in the region. Later that year he traveled to Cuba to negotiate the release of several political prisoners held there and to Central America, where he spoke out for regional peace. In 1990 Jackson was the first American to bring hostages out of Iraq and Kuwait.

When three U.S. soldiers serving as part of NATO's forces in Yugoslavia were captured by the Yugoslav army in March of 1999, Jackson, along with an interfaith delegation, embarked on a diplomatic mission to negotiate their release. U.S. national security advisor Sandy Berger warned Jackson, as a private citizen, he did not have the authority to offer Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic any concessions on behalf of the United States. Berger also warned that Jackson's safety could not be guaranteed. Despite these warnings, Jackson, confident that he could persuade Milsocovic to release the prisoners as a gesture of goodwill, set off on his diplomatic mission. Jackson's confidence was not unfounded and when Jackson returned it was with the three soldiers at his side. The U.S. Senate recognized Jackson's efforts with a commendation.

In May of 1999, Jackson traveled to war-torn Sierra Leone, where he negotiated a cease-fire agreement between Tejan Kabbah, the country's president, and rebel Foday Sankoh. Jackson also negotiated for the release of more than two thousand prisoners of war. One year later, he returned to Sierra Leone to assist once more in the country's peace process.

More:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/jackson_j.htm

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I was around to hear people storm and bellow about Martin Luther King, Jr., raving about him day in, day out, or simply making their crude, imbecilic "jokes," which would get them going, their sloping, clumsy shoulders shaking with mirth. Since he was killed any prominent black person will do to attract the same racists, or their spawn who then launch their own updated tirades reviling, mocking, slurring them, too.

It's a spiritual disease. It's not admired, it's not respected. It reveals the clowns among us, those who are a true drain on the wellbeing of our culture.

Pick a target you want to intelligently assail, if you must, if you really think other people want to hear you attempting to defile people you don't know for reasons you don't understand, and leave your venom back in your fangs.

[bulloney]

5. But lately, he just seems to fly around and make statements about things he knows little about.

Example: Last winter, police in Lima, Ohio conducted a drug raid at a residence. Shots were fired, killing a woman and injuring her infant son.

Weeks later, Jackson came to Lima and was demanding indictments be issued. Why now? Hearings were not complete at the time. If you indict prematurely, there's a good chance that the case would be thrown out for lack of solid evidence. But Jackson was holding news conferences and other meetings and called for indictments now, not thinking that it would ultimately jeopardize what was being pursued.

I don't know how he could really make informed remarks about something that happened in another part of the country.